Legal Notices and Privacy Statement to Users of BellSouth Web Sites

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MATERIALS

You may use, copy and distribute the materials found on BellSouth Web Sites for internal, noncommercial, informational purposes only. All copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by BellSouth Corporation, its subsidiaries and/or any third party owner of such rights.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MARKS

The BellSouth company names and logos and all related products and service names, design marks and slogans are trademarks and service marks owned by and used under license from BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation. All other trademarks and service marks herein are the property of their respective owners. You are not authorized to use any BellSouth name or mark in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation. Requests for authorization should be made to BellSouth's Trademark Manager at (404) 249-2738.

HOW WE MAY USE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

Do not send us any confidential or proprietary information. Any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, which you send to us will be treated as being nonconfidential and nonproprietary. We assume no obligation to protect such information from disclosure and will be free to reproduce, use, and distribute the information to others without restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services incorporating such information.

ENDORSEMENTS

All product and service marks contained herein that are not BellSouth marks are the trademarks of their respective owners. References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not necessarily constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, information, product or service.

CONTENT AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

Material on BellSouth Web Sites may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes may be periodically incorporated into this material. BellSouth may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described in these materials at any time without notice.

The materials on BellSouth Web Sites are provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY BELLSOUTH COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN CONTRACT OR TORT, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH ANY BELLSOUTH WEB SITE OR THE USE, RELIANCE UPON OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY BELLSOUTH WEB SITE.

For further information on Intellectual Property matters contact BellSouth's Intellectual Property Manager at 404-249-3345.

Additional language for BELLSOUTH.NET and other providers of internet access and /or various other online services:

MONITORING OF MATERIALS TRANSMITTED BY YOU

We are under no obligation to monitor the material residing on or transmitted to this server. However, anyone using this server agrees that BellSouth may monitor the server contents periodically to (1) comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests; (2) to operate the server properly or to protect itself and its users. BellSouth reserves the right to modify, reject or eliminate any material residing on or transmitted to its server that it, in its sole discretion, believes is unacceptable or in violation of the law or these terms and conditions.

ACCESS SERVICES LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

THE USER OF THIS SYSTEM ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THIS SERVER AND THE INTERNET GENERALLY. BELLSOUTH AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE INFORMATION ACCESSED FROM, OR VIA, THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. BELLSOUTH DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS DISCLOSED ON THE SERVER OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SERVER. IN NO EVENT SHALL BELLSOUTH BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA, REVENUE OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION ON THIS SERVER OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY.

SUBMISSIONS TO SERVICE.

Users are entitled to submit memoranda, newsletter articles, outlines and other substantive materials for inclusion in the appropriate BellSouth library database. Users shall not submit any material that is defamatory, infringing, violative of applicable law or otherwise detrimental to the system.

While a user may preserve its copyright interest in submitted material, all materials submitted for public posting to the system shall become part of a database, all compilation and collective copyrights in which are owned exclusively by BellSouth. Moreover, users who submit material shall be deemed to (i) grant to BellSouth and subscribers to the system a paid up, perpetual, world-wide irrevocable license to use, copy and redistribute such materials and any portions thereof and any derivative works therefrom and (ii) warrant that such submitting user has all rights necessary to submit such material and that the use of such material by BellSouth and subscribers to the system will not infringe any other party's rights.

Each user agrees, as a condition of such license, (i) not to remove identifying source information from verbatim copies of user-supplied materials (or substantially similar derivative works) found in public areas of the system and (ii) not to reproduce portions thereof in any way that identifies the source but fails to describe accurately the nature and source of any modification, alteration thereto or selection therefrom.

Notwithstanding the licenses granted by users and information suppliers, users shall not engage in systematic, substantial and regular replication of materials supplied to the system where the effect of such actions is to provide another person who is not an authorized subscriber to such materials with a substantial substitute for a subscription.

All users must abide by special terms and conditions associated with materials posted in the PRIVATE, NEWS, FYI and RESOURCES areas or otherwise associated with information originating from commercial information providers.

DELETIONS FROM SERVICE.

BellSouth will delete any materials at the request of user who submitted the materials. BellSouth reserves the right to delete (or to refuse to post to public forums) any materials it deems detrimental to the system or is, or in BellSouth's opinion may be, defamatory, infringing or violative of applicable law. Although BellSouth reserves the right to exclude memoranda, it will not knowingly edit materials submitted by users. Electronic mail stored on the system, whether or not it has been read by the addressee, will be deleted after 90 days.

VIRUS PROTECTION

Each party that submits materials agrees that in uploading executable files to the system it will use only computer systems employing reasonable means to check for and prevent the spread of computer viruses.

PRIVACY POLICY

BellSouth is sensitive to privacy issues with respect to the use of customer information provided to us over the Internet. We believe it is important for you to know how we treat the information about you that is received by us when you visit. In general, you can visit BellSouth on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our web servers collect domain names, and not the email addresses of our visitors. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, number of pages viewed, and methods by which our site was found. BellSouth uses this information to evaluate the use of our site and to continuously improve the content being provided.

There are times however, when we may need information from you, such as your name and address and other contact information. This information is usually required to process requests initiated by 'visitors' to our site such as: on-line ordering, product & service information, developing profiles for receiving news alerts, and for sweepstakes entry. When such information is needed, we will let you know how we will use the personal information at the time of collection. While BellSouth may use this information to contact or send materials to you for marketing purposes, we will take commercially reasonable steps to safeguard the information from unauthorized access and, unless we specifically disclose it to you at the time of collection, we will not make customer-specific information that is gathered on our site available to unaffiliated organizations for commercial purposes unrelated to the business of BellSouth.

As a service to the news media and general site visitors, BellSouth provides an information notification service. Visitors may voluntarily enter a password protected, personalized 'contact profile' to receive late-breaking news and product specials via e-mail. Subscribers have control over their selected news selection and whether or not they want to suspend the service entirely, by re-visiting our site and amending their selections directly without having to email someone and wait for a reply.

BellSouth may make use of a technology called cookies, in order to provide you with tailored information. A cookie is a tiny element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return. You may set your browser to notify you or decline the receipt of a cookie. At times we conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs and profile of our visitors. When we conduct a survey, we will let you know how we will use the information at the time it is collected from you.

The BellSouth web site may contain links to other sites such as our sales affiliates and community service organizations. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites.

Because of the evolving nature of the technologies that we use and the way that we conduct business, we may amend this policy from time to time. We will post any revisions on this site.